Posted on 04/29/2020 12:04:00 PM PDT by PROCON
The 80's were an absolute haven for great music from all different genres. Whether it was pop, rock, or even new wave, music was progressing by leaps and bounds in terms of new sounds and general hookiness. Though many musicians would need a Casio synthesizer to get their songs on the air, these bands stuck to their guns with letter-perfect rock and roll.
Though many of these songs fall under the domain of rock in name, none of them seem to fit neatly in a single category. While many artists were still following in the bluesy tradition of bands like Led Zeppelin, other artists were making bold new innovations for the genre whose presence can still be felt to this day. Even if you weren't sure how to feel about them on first listen, these songs have aged into modern marvels of the rock pantheon that deserve to be celebrated as such.
From hair metal to progressive rock to regular rock and roll, nothing is off the table when it comes to picking the cream of the rock scene. There may have been a technicolor haze sprinkled across the decade, but these songs don't need any trend in order to warp your brain.
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I frigging loved Asia.
Saw YES once...great show.
ELP, KC....wow
Radio was great back then....i don’t even bother anymore with it.
being basically forced into listening to the same classic hits all day long every day at work is starting to get extremely tiresome.
sad what the industry has turned into...
Have you spent years and hundreds of hours Playing classic rock songs on stage ? I have.
I do kind of have an informed opinion from that.
Make no mistake, these artists are extremely talented. But the things they made us focus on were not for our betterment.
Springsteen ruined rock music with his soul-less “everything’s wrong” b.s.
Ad me to that list. Can’t stand Springsteen.
Bruce always sings like he’s trying to pass a bowling ball.
Springsteen should be a poster boy for “cultural appropriation”. If it weren’t for Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters and other bluesmen from days gone by he’d be just another White trash from the Jersey shore crashing Chevelles on the Garden State Pkwy.
To this day, “Changes” by Yes with Trevor Rabin on vocals is my favorite song of that period by the band.
I mentioned that song in another thread earlier this month.
No. 4 is No. 1 in the hearts of ex-strippers everywhere.
If a gal can’t pole dance to it then it isn’t an 80’s classic.
I listened to that cassette so often that I wore it out and bought a second copy.
The list wasn’t very good IMHO. REM really?
Even worse was when Bruce tried to sing in that faux Southern Drawl.
And I thought I was the only person that didn’t like the guy the E Street Band made famous.
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